HD6950 or HD6870

[cryptojoe37]

  Well just like the title says which one should I get? looking for performance.

[adarw]

depends on the price. if its high i would rather just find a better gpu.

[porina]

70 is faster than 50 is it not? But still both are very old by current standards so either will be limited in what they can do.

 

Edit: I totally missed 1st time around the 68 vs 69 also. So, I have no idea which is fastest, but their age remains a concern.

[Vishera]

1 hour ago, porina said:

70 is faster than 50 is it not? But still both are very old by current standards so either will be limited in what they can do.

I actually bought a HD 6970 for my Terascale collection.

The HD 6950 is very close in performance,especially if you flash a HD 6970 vBIOS on it.

 

The settings i used for most games are not the lowest,and look rather nice.

 

I have wrote a few notes during the review of this card:

Can't play DX12 and Vulkan titles

Loud

Stutters in some games (overclocking significantly reduces stuttering,tested at 950MHz)

 

Games i tested and resolution i used:

 

Playable games:

Battlefield 3 (60+ FPS) (1080p)
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes(60+ FPS) (1080p)
Tomb Raider 2013 (60+ FPS) (1080p)
Metro Last Light (60+ FPS) (1080p)
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (60+ FPS) (900p)
Onee Chanbara ORIGIN (4K)
Ryse: Son of Rome (1080p)
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (1080p)
Deadpool (1080p)
Need for Speed Rivals (1080p)
Max Payne 3 (1080p)
Far Cry 4 (1080p)
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (1080p)
Tales of Arise (1080p)
Deus EX Mankind Divided (1080p)
Kingdom Come deliverance (1050p)

 

Completely unplayable games:

Star Wars Jedi Fallen order (Poor performance no matter the settings)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Driver Artifacts,affects all Terascale GPUs,tested on my HD 6750 as well)
Devil May Cry 5 (Need to drop the resolution too much for playable performance)
Batman Arkham Knight (Driver Artifacts,affects all Terascale GPUs,tested on my HD 6750 as well)

Yakuza 0 while the FPS is OK at 1080p,the card had a severe stuttering issue.

 

Some screenshots:

Spoiler

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

Ryse Son of Rome

 

Kingdom Come Deliverance:

 

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zero:

If you want to know what settings i used,and how to overvolt the card the card,just ask me here.